Cuban-born novelist to give reading at ASU
<p>Achy Obejas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist whose most recent book is “Ruins,” will give a free reading at 3 p.m., Feb. 16, in room 151 of Bateman Physical Sciences Center H Wing on ASU’s Tempe campus.</p><separator></separator><p>Following the reading, sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Obejas also will sign copies of her novel “Ruins.”</p><separator></separator><p>During her journalism career at the Chicago Tribune, she covered the Versace murder, the arrival of Al-Queda prisoners in Guantanamo, and Pope John Paul’s historic 1998 visit to Cuba.</p><separator></separator><p>Obejas also has received the Studs Terkel Journalism Prize, several Peter Lisagor journalism honors, two Lambda Literary awards, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry, and residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale and the Virginia Center for the Arts.</p><separator></separator><p>Her work has been translated into Spanish, German, Hungarian and Farsi. She has lectured and read her work in the United States, Cuba, Mexico, Spain and Australia.</p><separator></separator><p>Obejas, who was born in Havana, Cuba, is the author of three novels. Besides “Ruins,” they are “Days of Awe” and “Memory Mambo.”</p><separator></separator><p>She also has published a collection of short stories, “We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?“</p><separator></separator><p>Her poetry and fiction have been included in numerous literary publications, including “Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas,” “Indiana Review,” “Story,” “La Gaceta de Cuba” and “Habana Elegante,”</p><separator></separator><p>Obejas currently is the Sor Juana Visiting Writer at DePaul University in Chicago.</p><separator></separator><p>The event is co-sponsored by Barrett, the Honors College; Department of English, Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies; and the Hispanic Research Center.</p><separator></separator><p>For more information about the reading, contact the Piper Center for Creative Writing, (480) 965-6018, or <a href="http://www.asu.edu/piper">www.asu.edu/piper</a>.</p><separator></separa… Contacts:</strong><br />Tom McDermott, <a href="mailto:thomas.m.mcdermott@asu.edu">thomas.m.mcdermott@asu.edu</a><br />(480) 727-0818</p><separator></separator><p>Judith Smith, <a href="mailto:jps@asu.edu">jps@asu.edu</a><br />(480) 965-4821</p>